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- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.std.c++
- Path: sparky!uunet!mole-end!mat
- From: mat@mole-end.matawan.nj.us
- Subject: Re: run-time type checking (was: Re: Covariant Types in Derived Classes)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.210019.19120@mole-end.matawan.nj.us>
- Organization: :
- References: <1992Jul24.234628.21196@cadsun.corp.mot.com> <2TJ53BQ@netmbx.netmbx.de>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 21:00:19 GMT
- Lines: 25
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- In article <2TJ53BQ@netmbx.netmbx.de>, jrobie@netmbx.netmbx.de (Jonathan Robie) writes:
- > chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
-
- > >But once you've frozen a C++ object into a dead array of bytes, it's
- > >no longer a C++ object, so the C++ type system is no longer operative.
-
- > >...
- > Unfortunately, the proposed standard will not provide enough info to
- > do this, according to Mat Mol. ...
-
- I ain't Mat and I ain't nobody's moll! I got a poifekly good .sig down
- below and youse guys oughta loin ta read it.
-
- > .... He referred to a second standard for
- > extended type information that might have enough infor but which he
- > suggests might not make it into the standard. I am trying to get my
- > hands on these proposals, but it may take a few weeks...
-
- The Extended Type Information proposal is only in its formative stages now.
- ETI will be done if it is practical.
- --
- (This man's opinions are his own.)
- From mole-end Mark Terribile
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- mat@mole-end.matawan.nj.us, Somewhere in Matawan, NJ
-